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...remains to state that if a student accumulates his quota of twenty absences, a notice is sent to his parents, and he is warned. If he receives thirty he is suspended from college for two or four weeks. If he received over twenty the whole number "count off his grade" - two-tenths for each absence. All these rules are enforced with some rigor. Is it necessary to add how this system is viewed by the students...
...retirement of Rear-Admirals Balch and Bryson, Commander Charles H. Baldwin is promoted to the grade of rear-admiral...
...incurable cause of illsuccess. Others, though less hostile, consider the university career "no good," except to give manners, and hold that the money and time, though not exactly wasted, are expended to secure a problematical gain, in the way not so much of success or of happiness, as of grade. These men are seldom thoroughly cultivated, but greatly exaggerate the effect of university culture upon grade, perhaps of all errors about the system the one most generally prevalent. Still others maintain strongly and definitely that the higher education always "pays;" that no matter what a man's occupation...
...supposed to write "orations." But take the case of the man of general intelligence, who, however, has not devoted himself to any special topic. He has attained an average of eighty-five per cent. in his three years' course, and therefore gets a degree magna cum laude, a grade below the other man. Of course every student knows the relative value of these degrees, obtained under such circumstances, and that the "magna cum" man is generally a better representative of Harvard than the man with a summa cum, but the outside world does not. Any stranger hearing that...
...take examinations at the same times that the corresponding classes in the college were having them, and the papers used in our classes have been, by the courtesy of the college, the same that were used for the men. The examinations have been very satisfactory and the general grade of excellence such that the instructors have expressed approval of the students. The marks, which are preserved, are generally high...